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Mobileye is acquiring Israeli humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 21:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding the $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training (xAI)
2026-01-06 20:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 19:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
2026-01-06 19:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026 (Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AWS implemented a 15% price hike for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML on January 3; Amazon says it "reflects the supply/demand patterns we expect this quarter" (Corey Quinn/The Register)
2026-01-06 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Asus redesigns the Zenbook Duo with a new "hideaway" hinge that shrinks the gap between the laptop's two 3K 144Hz Lumina Pro OLED displays to just 8.28 mm (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
2026-01-06 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (Sara Fischer/Axios)
2026-01-06 17:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 17:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Commonwealth Fusion Systems teams up with Nvidia and Siemens to build an AI digital twin of its Sparc fusion reactor, accelerating its push to commercial fusion (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)
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UMG announces a partnership with Nvidia "to pioneer responsible AI for music discovery, creation, and engagement", centered on Nvidia's Music Flamingo model (Dan Rys/Billboard)
2026-01-06 16:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Marvell says it will acquire networking equipment provider XConn Technologies in a deal worth about $540M; the deal is expected to close in early 2026 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
2026-01-06 16:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Vancouver-based quantum computing startup Photonic raised CA$180M led by Planet First Partners, bringing its total funding to CA$375M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
2026-01-06 16:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
2026-01-06 16:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ring revamps its home sensors, including door, window, and break glass sensors built on the Amazon Sidewalk protocol, and expands the protocol internationally (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
2026-01-06 14:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over "the next couple of years", as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 14:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
LMArena, which runs a leaderboard ranking AI models based on their performance, raised $150M at a $1.7B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $250M+ (The Information)
2026-01-06 15:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
2026-01-06 14:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Accenture agrees to acquire UK AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture CTO (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
2026-01-06 13:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta and Garmin show an early demo of using Meta's wrist-based neural band inside of a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin's Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
2026-01-06 12:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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